Olympus - June 10, 2016 

After much consideration, Young Kumu wanted to do a ridge, so we decided on doing Olympus-Manoa Middle. 

The start time was at 8am at Alani Drive near the Chinese cemetery. Joining the hike today was The Judge, Burs, and Young Kumu. I carpooled with The Judge and met Burs near the parking area. We joked that Young Kumu would get there at 8:30am, but she arrived early. 

We started up Alani towards Kolowalu at 8:11am. For some reason, it took us forever to get up Kolowalu to the junction, like two hours or so. Apparently, we had a lot to talk about. It was a good discussion, really good. 

We headed up the Olympus trail at a somewhat faster pace. However, at each helipad, we talked story. I mean a lot of story. Not seeing each other for a while, yielded many things to talk about. We finally summited Olympus past 12pm. It took us over 3 hours to reach the summit. Darren and I waited like 15 minutes for Burs and Young Kumu to make their way. They took so long, so we went to look for them. They were talking female conversations.  

We spent what seemed like forever there at the top of Olympus. I think we needed each other's company. Low and behold, the summit cleared because of the strong winds and the view was dominating, the wall to the left, Olomana in front, and the KST to the right. It was kinda late already, so we bailed on our crossover and went the same way we came up. 

After more stories, we left and headed down. Going back was fast, maybe two hours or so. The post hike meal was at a place called the Golden Pork, but Young Kumu said to check. I did, it was closed.

The backup plan was Goma Tei at Ward. The Judge and I found prime parking and met up with Burs and Young Kumu. The Tan Tan was the bomb. We talked more stories. It was such an awesome day of hiking. The only stressful part was to figure out the bill, which we did. The pictures say it all.